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My question about a minority of white people having English ancestry (I haven’t researched it myself.) is why don’t we have English heritage day?
As has been discussed in this thread, probably because they were the original settlers so everybody back then was mostly English so no real need, it was so long ago that they are all just Americans now, and the fact that our country was literally founded on fighting against the English King.
The reason German clubs and whatever were started is cause they were surrounded by a bunch of “American Americans” and needed a society for themselves
My question about a minority of white people having English ancestry (I haven’t researched it myself.) is why don’t we have English heritage day?
That is on the Americans of English descent to advocate for such a day. I mean, St. Patricks Day isn't celebrated just because the government said so. Irish-Americans advocated for it.
I always wondered why Anglo-Americans don't celebrate Guy Fawkes Day. Shooot, November could use more holidays to combat this Christmas creep crap. Tired of seeing Christmas decorations the day after Halloween. We got Day of the Dead, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. Throw in Guy Fawkes Day... Christmas won't stand a chance!
Don't get bitter. I'm trying to understand how one would ask such a question in the first place and why and to be honest the only thing I have gotten from you is that British people contributed to American culture during the colonial era as if that has any relevance to the question asked. The Irish, Germans, African, Mexican, Italian etc people have contributed to US culture aswell yet i can assure you parts of the New York, Boston or Chicago will ever feel Italian or Irish no matter their ancestry and their attachment to that Ancestry.
To be fair a question similar to this was asked in another thread about what parts of Australia are similar to US cities and people give their views. This wasn't bad because when people answered they were more showing how the cities in both countries expanded in a similar way, heavily sprawled out and with Australian cities following a similar structure in how they were built similar to American cities in a grid like fashion aswell as their obsessiveness with high rise buildings and suburbia. Also with some having similar climates. That doesn't mean any part of Australia will feel American. Culturally they are very different even though they were settled by the same people. This is largely because of how these countries have changed in the last century or two.
Have you been to Boston's North End? It feels pretty Italian if you ask me...
Have you been to Boston's North End? It feels pretty Italian if you ask me...
Have you ever been to Italy? Would you honestly say Boston's North End feels like somewhere in Italy? How about South Boston, is that as Irish as Belfast or Dublin? It's a strange thing to say
Because (1) so many of the nation's oldest celebrations were long effectively that, and (2) the majority of currently living Americans with English ancestry are much more distant in time and dilution from the immigration of their English ancestors than descendants of more recent immigrants. In one word: assimilation.
Have you been to Boston's North End? It feels pretty Italian if you ask me...
Italian?
Maybe Edinburgh or Manchester
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